Cherki in the French team, it's validated

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

Rayan Cherki undoubtedly creates the most successful season of his young career. With 11 goals and 18 assists in 38 matches in all competitions combined with his credit, the Lyon Follet-Follet is so much illustrated and so that the contenders are starting to flock. New prospects for the international tricolor hopes which could well cross a course quickly under the flags.

“” Players like that, it hardly exists in modern football. He is a transition player, a player capable of triggering the actions », Breathe on the waves of RMC this Thursday an Emmanuel Petit who calls for his wishes the future selection of the person concerned with the A:« Above all, it is a player who is sorely lacking in the French team … »»

“” I hope Didier will be able to select it for the World Cup in just over a year to be able to integrate it. He will do a lot of good in the midfield, in creativity, in this ability to trigger actions, to create spaces, to be in small spaces and really concentrated defenses “, Judges the 1998 world champion.

Cherki, a rating doubled in a few months

For the former Gunner, there is no doubt that Rayan Cherki is closely followed across the Channel. “” Everyone looks at him with a really attentive eye at the moment for the season he is doing. (…) When it is said that in England, they do not follow it, it is an unusual lie insofar as the French championship has still been the pool of the English championship for two decades … »»

“” They follow very well, without saying it openlyadds Emmanuel Petit. They know very well that Cherki is making his best season and that he is an exceptional and above all extraordinary player. Last summer, Borussia Dortmund and PSG were most interested, with a possible deal of 15 million euros at the time. The rating today would have more than doubled according to the specialized site Transfermarkt, which assesses the Rhone crack at 35 million euros.